Dr. Satyandra K. Gupta is a Professor in the Department of
Mechanical Engineering and the Institute for Systems Research at the University
of Maryland. He is also the director of the Maryland Robotics Center. Prior to
joining the University of Maryland, he was a Research Scientist in the Robotics
Institute at Carnegie Mellon University.
Dr. Gupta received a Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) degree in Mechanical
Engineering from the University of Roorkee (currently known as the Indian
Institute of Technology, Roorkee) in 1988. He received a Gold Medal for
securing the first rank in his B.E. class (1988) and a Gold Medal for the best
Engineering Design Project (1988). He received a Master of Technology (M.
Tech.) in Production Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi
in 1989. He received a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of
Maryland at College Park in 1994. During his Ph.D. study, he was awarded a
Graduate School Fellowship and an Institute for Systems Research Graduate Fellowship.
For his highly inter-disciplinary Ph.D. research, he received Institute for
Systems Research’s George Harhalakis Outstanding Systems Engineering Graduate
Student Award (1994).
Dr. Gupta's research interest is in the area of automation. He is specifically
interested in automation problems arising in Computer Aided Design,
Manufacturing Automation, and Robotics. His prior work mainly focused in the
geometric reasoning area. Specifically, he worked on accessibility analysis, feature
recognition, manufacturability analysis, mold design, path planning, process
planning, setup planning, shape similarity assessment, shape measurement, and
tool selection problems. He has experience with the following manufacturing
domains: mechanical assembly, computer numerical control machining, micro
fabrication, injection molding, multi-material molding, sheet metal bending, solid
freeform fabrication, and waterjet cutting.
Dr. Gupta's current research is focused on simulation-based computational
synthesis and planning. In both of these problems, a complex structure is
constructed from the given set of building blocks and evaluated using
simulations. State space search is used to construct and optimize solutions.
The search space includes both continuous and discrete variables and tends to
be extremely large. His research is addressing the following issues: (1) what
representations to use to efficiently perform search; (2) how to use inductive
and deductive reasoning to prune unpromising search space and guide the search
process; and (3) how to speed up simulations to enable exploration of large
search spaces. Currently, his group is working on robot mechanism, gait, and
behavior synthesis problems. His group is also working on automated
manufacturing planning, motion planning, trajectory planning, and task planning
problems.
Dr. Gupta has authored or co-authored more than two hundred forty articles in
journals, conference proceedings, and book chapters. He has also delivered more
than seventy invited tutorials, seminars, and keynote lectures at conferences,
workshops, government labs, and universities. He holds a US Patent titled Apparatus
and Method for Multi-Purpose Setup Planning for Sheet Metal Bending Operations.
Dr. Gupta is a fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), a
senior member of the Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME), and a senior
member of Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). He has
served as the Chair of the Design for Manufacturing Technical Committee in the
Design Division of ASME. He has organized several conference sessions in the
area of computer-aided design, manufacturing automation, and robotics. He has
served as Exhibit Chair in 2000 ASME Design Engineering Technical
Conferences, Program Chair in 2002 ASME Design for Manufacturing
Conference, and Conference Chair in 2003 ASME Design for Manufacturing
Conference. He has served as a member on the Editorial Advisory Board for Assembly
Automation and Computer Aided Design and Applications journals. He
has also served as an Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Automation
Science and Engineering, ASME Journal of Computing and Information
Science in Engineering, and SME Journal of Manufacturing Processes.
He has also served on the Program Committees for Geometric Modeling and
Processing Conference, Computer Aided Design Conference, Product
Lifecycle Management Conference, CAD and Graphics Conference, IEEE
International Symposium on Assembly and Manufacturing, IEEE Conference
on Automation Science and Engineering, and ACM Solid and Physical
Modeling Conference.
Dr. Gupta has received several honors and awards for his research
contributions. Representative examples include: a Best Paper Award at the 1994 ASME
International Conference on Computers in Engineering, the Best Paper Award
at the 1999 ASME Design for Manufacturing Conference, a Young
Investigator Award from the Office of Naval Research in 2000, a Robert W.
Galvin Outstanding Young Manufacturing Engineer Award from the Society of
Manufacturing Engineers in 2001, a CAREER Award from the National Science
Foundation in 2001, the Outstanding Systems Engineering Faculty Award from the
Institute for Systems Research in 2001, a Presidential Early Career Award for
Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) in 2001, a Highly Commended Paper Award from
Literati Club in 2002, the Best Paper Award at the 2006 ASME Computers
and Information in Engineering Conference, Invention of the Year Award in
Physical Science category at the University of Maryland in 2007, the Compliant
Mechanism Applications Award at the 2010 ASME Mechanism and Robotics
Conference, and Kos Ishii-Toshiba Award from ASME Design for Manufacturing
and the Life Cycle Committee in 2011.
Last updated on November 24, 2011